🤖 VP of Robotics Research | Remote | $100–$120/Hour | Full-Time Remote Openings 01

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🤖 VP of Robotics Research | Remote | $100–$120/Hour | Full-Time Posted by: micro1 Job Type: Full-Time Location: Remote Openings: 1 Listed Rate: $100–$120/hour Base Salary Range: $250,000–$350,000/year 📌 Job Overview micro1 is hiring a VP of Robotics Research to lead its Robotics Research team and help develop the data foundations behind robot learning. The successful candidate will define how robotics data is collected, represented, evaluated, and scaled while helping build a Robotics Data Engine for increasingly capable robotic systems. This leadership role involves working at the intersection of robotics, perception, machine learning, embodied AI, and large-scale data, while building and mentoring a team of Robotics Researchers. 🔍 What You'll Do Define and execute research strategies for robotics data, embodied AI, and robot learning. Lead research initiatives involving robotics datasets, multimodal representations, perception, manipulation, and data-centric learning. Build, mentor, and grow a team of Robotics Researchers. Develop innovative methods for collecting robotics data through teleoperation, human demonstrations, simulation, autonomous exploration, and real-world deployments. Design scalable robotics data pipelines, including collection workflows, task taxonomies, annotation schemas, quality-control processes, evaluation methods, and data-delivery formats. Translate research and client objectives into scalable data-pipeline specifications. Define data requirements, collection strategies, labeling standards, and success metrics. Work with research, engineering, product, and operations teams to implement production-ready robotics data solutions. Establish benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for measuring robot-learning performance. Evaluate emerging robotics research, datasets, and techniques. Promote technical excellence through documentation, knowledge sharing, and cross-functional communication. 🎓 What They're Looking For Significant experience in robotics research, embodied AI, robot learning, or robotics software engineering. Experience leading or mentoring technical or research teams. Deep knowledge of robotics data pipelines, multimodal datasets, and data infrastructure. Expertise in areas such as: Robot Perception Manipulation Control Imitation Learning Reinforcement Learning Robotics Foundation Models Experience designing and evaluating large-scale robotics datasets. Ability to translate research concepts into scalable engineering systems. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong interest in advancing embodied intelligence through research and data-driven approaches. ⭐ Preferred Qualifications Master's or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Publications at conferences such as CoRL, RSS, ICRA, IROS, NeurIPS, ICML, or CVPR. Experience building large-scale robotics datasets, data engines, or research infrastructure. Hands-on experience with robotics frameworks or simulation environments such as: ROS / ROS2 Isaac Lab Isaac Sim MuJoCo Habitat ManiSkill Contributions to open-source robotics projects or significant research in embodied AI. 💰 Compensation & Benefits The job listing shows a national base salary range of $250,000–$350,000 per year. Employees may also be eligible for: Equity compensation Performance-based bonuses Health-insurance premium reimbursement of up to 100% Paid time off 401(k) plan with company match Additional employee benefits 🌍 Work Location Remote 👥 Number of Openings 1 position 🤖 AI-Assisted Hiring Process micro1 states that its hiring process uses artificial intelligence tools to assist with candidate screening and assessment. According to the listing, these tools are intended to complement rather than replace human decision-making. 📝 How to Apply This opportunity is posted by micro1. Interested candidates should apply through the official micro1 job listing. https://joApply Now